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Congressional Testimony
04-27-2006
Statement of Donald A. Wilhite Director, National Drought Mitigation Center
Committee on Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on
Disaster Prevention and Prediction April 27, 2006 I appreciate the opportunity
to submit this statement to the Senate`s Subcommittee on Disaster Prevention
and Prediction. My name is Don Wilhite; I am the founder and director of
the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC), located at the University
of Nebraska in Lincoln. The National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) was
formed in 1995 following a sequence of ...

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